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In Reply to: What makes an amplifier have a deep soundstage? posted by Doughter on March 28, 2007 at 05:38:14:
"What is it in the design that creates it. One is an old Macintosh MC250(solid state with autoformers) and a ASL 1009 (tube, interstage coupled). Is it something to do with current, transformers used, or something else?"Whilst thermionic noise can a be factor, I think a much bigger factor is the variation in the frequency response curve of the amplifier interaction with various speakers. Any amplifier not just tube amplifiers with highish output impedance will react differently to various low to medium impedance speakers which form the bulk of most modern speakers, These variations will be reflected in soundstage amongst other things.
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